Please join us March 6 as the AEA media & literacy staff in collaboration with Iowa Department of Education staff hold webinars which will assist teachers in locating and analyzing instructional resources which support the Iowa Core with a focus on using AEA digital resources for Close Reading.This webinar is a follow-up presentation to the webinar from last school year, Text Complexity and the Iowa AEA Online resources. The archived session of the text complexity webinar can be found at the same site used for registration. Text Complexity and Close Reading are closely intertwined, so attendees may wish to review last year’s webinar as a precursor to attending the upcoming session.

Many of you use the credit recovery program Edgenuity (formerly E20/20) and have expressed interest in learning more about the features of the program as well as best practice in the field. We have put together two workshops to be held Monday, March 10at the Heartland AEA West Des Moines Campus to learn more about these great resources. Please register for the workshop that best suits your needs:

The fifth annual Iowa 1:1 Institute will be Thursday, April 10, in Des Moines. Over 1,200 attendees are again expected. This year there is also a special Leadership Day for administrators on April 9 with Patrick Larkin, one of NASSP’s first Digital Principal Award recipients.

Keystone AEA’s annual Technology Integration in Classrooms conference (TIC) will be held on June 17-18 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque (on the mighty Mississippi). We have a large capacity for this conference and would love to have it promoted across the state. It is open to all PreK-12 educators.Registration for the two-day conference is just $99 before May 1 (includes lunch, 3 keynoters, and over 80 break-out sessions). Recertification credit is also available.Learn more athttp://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/index.cfm?nodeID=46062&audienceID=1

2014 Midwest Summer Institute: Inclusion and Communication for All

The institute will Educate, Motivate, Inform & Transform. Features national speakers, presentations, panels and workshops.

Audience: For individuals on the autism spectrum and with other developmental disabilities; friends, allies, families; educators, therapists and support providers. College students and university faculty are welcome.

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